Match



R. P. COOKE.

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MATCH.

Patented July 14, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

ROBERT F. COOKE, OF NET YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD SANDFORD, OF SAME PLACE, AND EMMA M. COOKE, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

MATCH.

SPECIFICATION forming pait of Letters Patent No. 563,746, dated July 14, 1896.

Application filed Merch 1'7, 1896. Serial No. 583,532. (No model.)l

To all 1072/0712/ t may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT F. COOKE, of New York city, New York, have invented an Improved Match, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to a mat-ch of the kind which is adapted to be ignited by frictional contact with the firing-pin of a cigarlightingimplement.

vThe Object of the invention is to produce a match which can be easily fed forward and which Will readily catch and retain the iire.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a perspective View of my improved match. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on line 2 2, Fig. 1.

My improved match is composed, essentially, of three parts-via a dat Celluloid tube or jacket, an inclosed Wick, and a series of phosphorous pellets secured to the jacket.

The letter a represents a flat tube or jacket made Of Celluloid and provided with a number of equidistant perforations a, adapted to be engaged bythe feed-nger of a cigar-lighting implement. Vithin the tube a there is confined a wick h, made preferably of textile material and saturated with Wax.

To one of the outer sides of tube oJ are secured, between the perforations a', the phosphorous pellets c, arranged preferably in the form of parallel ridges.

When the pellets c are ignited by frictional contact with the firing-pin of the lighting implement, they will ignite the Celluloid tube a, which will iiash up quickly, and in turn ignite the Wick b. Thus it will be seen that the celluloid tube serves to catch the fire and transmit it to the Wick, which in turn serves to sustain the fire. Moreover, the Celluloid tube serves to impart the necessary rigidity to the entire match, which enables it to be properly grasped and fed along by the feedpin of the lighting implement.

A match composed of a Wick, a surrounding Celluloid jacket and of phosphorous pellets secured to the Outer side of such jacket, substantially as speciiied.

R. F. COOKE.

lVitnesses F. V. BRIEsEN, XV. G. WRITING. 

